Category: Live Performance

LINDI ORTEGA - "Murder of Crows" - The second emphasis track from Cigarettes and Truckstops, serviced this week via allaccess.com digital delivery systems. You should have received an email on Wednesday with a link to the track. This is the most played song at Americana radio. Lindi continues her tour this month with dates in Charlotte, Atlanta, Nashville, and then a headlining run across Canada and then dates in the UK and Europe. The press continues to build with stories this week in the New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer. RAH RAH - "Prairie Girl" - Second single from the album, the poet's DEAD. First single from the album was a Top 30 track on CMJ College 200. They continue to tour the US, including dates at SXSW this year. …

Birdie was interviewed in this week's Philadelphia City Paper about the upcoming Philly Opry III at Johnny Brenda's next Friday night. She had a chance to talk about the recording process for the new album, her fundraising campaign with PledgeMusic, the packaging and artwork, and her plans to find a distributor for the recording, Birdie Busch and the Greatest Night.

We are honored to be selected for the WXPN Feature Album of the Week this week. With her fourth album, Birdie Busch & the Greatest Night, Birdie has created a muscular, angular and band psychedelphia of beautiful melodies, honest lyrics and engaging rhythms all cut live to tape in the studios of Dr Dog's engineer, Nathan Sabatino. Birdie and her band the Greatest Night will debut the album at her Philly Opry event at Johnny Brenda's on Friday January 18 at 9pm with Jason Loughlin and Joy Kills Sorrow. Some tickets are still available for this show. Birdie was chosen last week as part of the Pledge Music favorite albums of the year by the staff and founder Benji Rogers. Love that.

glad tidings for the new year. while reading the station's top 100 list, i assembled a list of favorite recordings of 2011. these are not necessarily the best of the year, but are the ones i listened to again and again, and found something more i liked about them each time. i would define a "best of" list as those that got the most airplay and sold the most copies, and achieved mainstream attention in a world that has adapted to the mediastream. so instead of the 'best' here's my most enjoyed. FAVORITE SOUNDS OF THE NEW ELDERLY:: my morning jacket - best rock record made this year. loved the who^ references, especially the pete townsend windmill riffs in ''circuital''. intense, delicate, serious and tongue in cheek, MMJ marries all…